What's the best way to clone your hard drive?

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As I take it, the problem with using Windows Explorer to copy your hard
drive is that it will stop copying as soon as a file supposedly can't
be copied, such as the registry. Does it matter if you copy from one
booted drive to another (unbooted) drive, or if you have three separate
hard drives connected - one booted, two unbooted, one to duplicate, the
other blank (is this even possible; do most computers even have slots
for three hard drives?) I don't know. Though I hears that using a sys
c:e: will solve bootsector issues(though for Win2k/XP you have to find
alternatives to solve the bootsector issue), maybe that solves the
problem of trying to copy a booted up drive. With FileSync you can
copy the files that Windows Explorer misses.

However, => could you connect two separate hard drives, boot from a
startup disk, and copy one to the other in DOS?

What about using File Manager, would that work to copy an entire hard
drive?

Also, how does BING from booting.com compare to Ghost and True Image?
 
You can do it with bing in trial mode.

Make the floppy, boot it, cancel the install, and you'll be in maintenance
mode. Click on partitions.
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Ed Light said:
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